Subcommittee Creation for Advanced Document Collaboration

The following request has been submitted to the OASIS TC Administrator on 30/11/2010:
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Submitter's Name
  Rob Weir
TC Name
  ODF TC
TC Email Address
  [1]office@lists.oasis-open.org
Subcommittee Name
  Advanced Document Collaboration
Subcommittee Email List Name
  office-collab
Statement of Purpose
  Many ODF documents do not involve collaboration. They are created by a
> single user, edited by a single user, and then perhaps presented or shared
> with multiple users, or maybe even just converted to PDF for distribution.
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> However, collaboration-based document scenarios are also common, including
> review and comment, change tracking as well as emerging work in real-time
> collaborative editing, in-context document collaboration, persistence of
> structured document fragments, and so on.
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> In order to bring together technical experts in these areas, and for them
> to evaluate trends, investigate opportunities and draft enhancements to
> ODF in these areas, we are proposing a dedicated subcommittee for this
> topic.
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> The initial and highest priority for the Subcommittee will be change
> tracking. Reliable and user friendly revision management is critical for
> professional document workflows in corporate and public sector
> environments, and as such an important feature of Open Document Format.
> The SC is asked to prepare a draft specification of a markup vocabulary
> that can accurately describe any incremental change to the content and
> structure of documents - typically made in multiple editing sessions by
> different authors.
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Deliverables
  1. A draft specification for change tracking, including Relax NG schema
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> 2. A description on how to apply change tracking markup to the various
> versions of the OpenDocument Format (ODF) as a host format.
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> 3. A set of test documents that will allow implementers to validate their
> change tracking implementations.
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> 4. A document that describes in detail how the existing change tracking
> mechanism in ODF can be converted to the new markup.
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> 5. Other proposals, draft specifications and in-scope work related to the
> subcommittee's Purpose.
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Chair
  Robin LaFontaine
Approval Link
  [2]http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/office/ballot.php?id=1967
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> Thank you for your request. We will schedule the QC review shortly. You can follow the progress at:
> http://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/browse/TCADMIN
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> The Standards Development team.
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[1] office@lists.oasis-open.org
[2] http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/office/ballot.php?id=1967